And the cost of training might seem daunting for a supposedly free database product.
(just to chat) Ingres is free of licence, but not free of knowledge. And what product is completly free of knowledge indeed, and then, completly free of charge ? I recently post Google Alert on the word "MySQL" and see many article that explain how to handle transactions, partitionning and so on. I'm not sure the actual MySQL community is prepared to deal with their favorite DB like that ... as for Oracle. When I was an Ingres DBA I request to some features (like row level locking), when I was an Ingres consultant I answer to the same questions from DBA to one day read into internal CA web site that Oracle turn it off to gain performance. So the match between financial charge is the same we have in the past about functionnlity ... Ingres is quiet simple compared to other product, but database stuff are not so simple. I've meet many people saying to me : "I develop an application based on Access, and I'm not working for computing IT. It is so easy and it work so fine" (yes, it work on your desktop or in your kitchen, not in a real production environment my dear - was what I think at this time but keep that sentence for me). And when the guy spoken in front of you is the same guy that paying the IT bill or have influence into IT choices in a company, I think we have hard work in front of us :-) Computing is somewhere like cooking : any people with ACCESS or more worth Excel macro (or a pan) in it's hand can think he is a perfect programmer (or cooker). -- Jean-Pierre Zuate La Fage Conseil +33(0)6 11 40 11 09 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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